More On QB From Pacific Northwest

Photos, video clips and lots of information about incoming 6-foot-4, 198-pound quarterback Andy Gay can be found on his web page. The Seattle-area QB had 31 touchdowns to just five interceptions over his final two seasons. A talented all-around athlete, he helped his basketball team off to a 20-4 season heading into states this week, and was the winning pitcher in a 4-1 game in the AAU World Series Championship in Orlando, Fla.

Speaking of recruits, a message made its way here last night that there was another future Big Green QB at a Dartmouth function in New York City last night wearing a name tag that said: Cole Marcoux '14.

From a Miami Herald blog this morning:

New defensive line coach Cedric Calhoun was in FIU gear and coaching up the Panthers D-linemen.

FIU, of course, is Florida International. Calhoun had been a member of the Dartmouth staff for the past four years.

On the subject of Florida and former Dartmouth coaches, a lengthy Grad Assistant Flip Chart on FootballScoop.com lists Joe Scola as heading up defensive quality control for Florida State.

Today's Daily Dartmouth has a story about football and soccer players at the college doing yoga.
From the story:

Due to NCAA regulations on practice hours, the yoga sessions are optional for the football team, but around 35 players have chosen to attend each class. Head coach Buddy Teevens has also participated in a few sessions.

And ...

Many of the players who have been practicing yoga boosted their results on pro-agility as well as power cleans and squats tests administered this week, (sophomore offensive lineman Pat Lahey) added.

Yoga is a little different, but coaches are always looking for whatever might give their team an edge. When I was first at the newspaper I did a story about a few Dartmouth football players doing ballet drills. Their instructor happened to be a former Penn football player doing some kind of artist-in-residence thing at Dartmouth.

As long as we are on an "arts" push, the Dartmouth Idol competition wraps up tomorrow night with linebacker/defensive end Michael Tree '13 one of the finalists. The Daily D has a story that also briefly mentions former tailbacker/kick returner Ikechi Ogbonna '06 recording a CD with the Dartmouth College Gospel Choir a few years ago.

Former Dartmouth lineman Hank Paulsen (whatever happened to him?) is pictured in this quick note on Dealbreaker.com about his disfigured pinky, which is noticeable in the photo. The note says Paulson told Jake Tapper, the Senior White House Correspondent for ABC News ...

"I’ve forgotten which game, but on one play this finger went out this way. This other one, that way. The team doctor pulled them out, put some tape around them and sent me right back out there. When the swelling went down we could tell they were dislocated."

Here's the funny part. The writer of the blog note says she was always curious about the finger but writes ...

"I’d never asked, though, because the way I was raised, it’s just something you don’t do. Luckily Jake Tapper has no such qualms about bringing up people’s glass eyes or bum legs or thing of that nature."

Hmm, could Tapper's willingness to ask the question have something to do with having something in common with the former Secretary of the Treasury? Tapper is Dartmouth Class of '91.

In the past several weeks we've learned of a few Dartmouth opponents who will have six home games next fall. Bryant University in Rhode Island hasn't yet migrated onto the Big Green schedule but it probably wouldn't be a surprise if it does at some point in the future. Oh, and the Bulldogs don't have six home games next fall. Nope, they have seven. (schedule link)

Bryant, by the way, plays in the Northeast Conference, which for the first time next fall will have an automatic bid into the Division I Football Championshp Subdivision playoffs. The Bulldogs are in the third year of a four-year transition from Division II to Division I, however, and don't become playoff eligible until 2012.

And if you are wondering, the Ivy League would have been a slam dunk to get an automatic bid with the playoffs expanding to 20 teams this year. (The Northeast Conference release about the expansion of the playoffs is available on this page from Sacred Heart University, a Dartmouth opponent next fall.)

A member of the I-AA/FCS Football Coaches Executive Committee told me several years ago that the organization very much wanted to bring the Ivies, in no small part because of their tradition, name recognition and historic stadiums, into the fold. (He also told me that until the Ivies do join the party, some voters in the national poll will not give Ancient Eight teams their due because they consider voting for an Ivy League team a wasted vote.)

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The New England Indoor Track Championships that I thought were going to be last week are actually being conducted tomorrow night at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Facility in Boston. That certain Hanover High School senior qualified for the event for the third year in a row and will be running the 1,000 in her final high school track competition.

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